But it’s only May and despite now being without a label, she’s just been honoured with the Ivor Novello for her album The Dreaming Room.

‘I’m ecstatic,’ she tells Metro.co.uk. ‘It’s really interesting – if in January you said to me “a few months later you’ll be at the Ivors” I’d be like what? It’s extraordinary. It shows there are ears in the industry! People care.’

She added how she feels pretty blessed that she’s come out from under the cloud to turn everything around: ‘There must be some deity because with the year it started out – my divorce was final in December, Sony wrote an email in January, and then I was alone with my cat in my flat!

‘So to be here now is a really refreshing boost. My attitude and approach to music is now different. It’s harder when you’ve got a cloud over your head.’

She’s taken being dropped on the chin, saying there was no other way it could have gone: ‘Of course they were going to struggle, they’re a pop label!’ Now she’s a fierce advocate for artists to go it alone.

‘I discovered [being independent] way too late,’ she tells us. ‘I was so young when I signed. It quickly became clear I was in my little bubble [with Sony]. We tried to work out how to make it digestible, but the public don’t need spoon feeding, they get it.’

Laura is working on new music (Picture: Joseph Okpako/WireImage)

But the new era of label-less artists is just the latest in a ripple of changes going on within the industry.

She added: ‘There’s a big change happening. I see lots of young artists inspired. There’s a warped understanding on what the role of a record label is. It’s wicked to be able to stand for young people and say ‘hey it’s possible’.

And now she doesn’t have a label, she has the luxury to take her own time with her new music. That means we could be in for a wait, though.